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35 Ga. J. Int'l & Comp. L. 1 (2006-2007)
Human Rights Enforcement in the Twenty-First Century

handle is hein.journals/gjicl35 and id is 7 raw text is: GEORGIA JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE LAW VOLUME 35 2006 NUMBER 1 HUMAN RIGHTS ENFORCEMENT IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY Douglas Donoho* TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION ........................................... 3 A. The Disappointing Record ............................... 3 B. Designed For Failure ................................... 5 C. Rethinking Human Rights Enforcement: Potential New Paradigms ................................ 6 II. THE PREVAILING PARADIGM: TRADITIONAL APPROACHES TO HUMAN RIGHTS ENFORCEMENT ............................... 9 A. Voluntary Compliance and Domestic Primacy .............. 12 B. The Traditional Role of International Institutions ............ 15 C. Institutional Failures and Ambiguous Authority ............. 17 D. Distinctions Among Rights, Institutional Legitimacy, and Practical Incentives ...................... 27 III. CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS IN ENFORCEMENT: THE EVOLVING NEW PARADIGMS ........................................ 32 A. National Criminalization of International Law Violations: The Pinochet Model .......................... 34 B. The Filartiga Civil Litigation Paradigm .................... 37 * Professor of Law, Nova Southeastern University, Shepard Broad Law Center, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida; LL.M., Harvard Law School; J.D., Rutgers University-Camden; B.A., Kalamazoo College.